Strelia
Acting on its own, as well as often working alongside the firm’s accomplished tax team, Strelia provides a ‘flexible and adaptable’ service to clients across a wide array of general corporate advice, corporate reorganisation mandates and M&A transactions. A good deal of the workflow is of a cross-border nature, including for French clients, which the firm is well-placed to advise by virtue of having several dual Luxembourg and French qualified practitioners in the team. Etienne de Crépy is one such practitioner and is noted for his ’concise and commercial’ advice, including on JV structuring. Vanessa Schmitt is recognised as ‘an absolutely stellar corporate lawyer,’ and along with Michaël Meylan, has enhanced the team’s offering following their arrival from Stibbe in June 2022.
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Testimonials
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‘The team is extremely proactive and involved in very high-profile files (and able to deal with them better than bigger firms).’
‘Strelia has a strong corporate and corporate finance practice from a legal and tax standpoints. Its lawyers are competent, constructive and reactive. They are quite flexible and adaptable for structuring transactions.’
‘Vanessa Schmitt is an absolutely stellar corporate lawyer.’
‘Etienne de Crépy is very responsive, always available, prompt, concise and commercial.’
- 'The team appears to function as one - seamless picking up of tasks for their clients, without bothering the client on internal re-directions to specific team members.'
- 'Etienne de Crépy seems to be born for this job. Very responsive, accurate, and oversees the full project.'
- 'Strelia Luxembourg provides a great service.'
Key clients
- Astorg
- IQEQ
- Keensight Capital
- LBO France
- SGT Capital
- Arev Capital
- Eurazeo
- Westfa Holding
- Lactalis
- Aquaterra
- Schaeffler Group
- Tilabras
- Meyers SA
Work highlights
- Advised Lactalis in relation to the restructuring of the group in Luxembourg through a full corporate, tax and social reorganisation.
- Advised IQ EQ, backed by Astorg, on the acquisition, related financing and/or the reinvestment of the target’s management into the management package of the IQ EQ group of JGM Fund Services, LLC and JGM Fund Administration, LLC, Laven Compliance Limited, ComplianceAsia Holdings Pte. Ltd, Lymon Pte and PCS Holdings, LLC.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Etienne de Crépy, Michaël Meylan, Vanessa Schmitt